Grace

“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.”
― Federico Fellini

“The unknownness of my needs frightens me. I do now know how huge they are, or how high they are, I only know that they are not being met. If you want to find out the circumference of an oil drop, you can use lycopodium powder. That’s what I’ll find. A tub of lycopodium powder, and I will sprinkle it on to my needs and find out how large they are. Then when I meet someone I can write up the experiment and show them what they have to take on.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.”
― Alasdair Gray

“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”
― Virginia Woolf